Category talk:The Beatles songs

This category was nominated for renaming on 8 November 2005. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

This category was nominated for renaming on 28 November 2016. The result of the discussion was keep.

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Rename?

Shouldn't this be titled Category:The Beatles' songs? Having the title not be a possessive sounds horrible. I'll do the change myself if there's no objections. Blackcap | talk 02:26, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've found a precedent: Category:The Rolling Stones songs. After thinking about this for a while, I realized that this title isn't an article (the), a noun (Beatles), and an object (songs), but a compound noun (The Beatles songs) comprised of a noun adjunct (The Beatles) and a noun (songs). I had trouble with this at first because of the article "the" in the name (it's easier to think about it as "Beatles songs"), but I think it's grammatically correct as it is. So, forget the move. Blackcap | talk 17:01, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

After thinking more about this, I've found that this is in violation of Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Avoid the definite article ("the") and the indefinite article ("a"/"an") at the beginning of the page name, which says:

If the definite or indefinite article article would be capitalized in running text, then include it at the beginning of the page name.

Per this, this, and my own personal feelings about how poor this title sounds, I'm going to list this on WP:CfD with the suggestion that this be renamed Category:Beatles songs. I'll do the same with the Rolling Stones category. Note that at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name)#Names of bands and groups there is a brief section covering band names with the word "the" capitalized in front of them (including the Beatles, acually), but since common usage says to leave the "the" uncapitalized, I think it's worthy of bringing up. --Blackcap | talk 17:36, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This was listed on Wikipedia:Categories for deletion, with a result of no consensus. An archive of the debate can be found here: Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 November 8#Category:The Beatles songs to Category:Beatles songs. --Blackcap | talk 18:09, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Further discussion see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_November_28#Category:The_Beatles_songs. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:12, 6 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Missing

"She Loves You" has an article in Wikipedia but isn't in this list. I can't seem to update it, can somebody do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.216.8.252 (talk) 06:46, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"Sheik of Araby" has an article in Wikipedia but isn't in this list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.136.192.1 (talk) 14:54, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For future reference, both these songs are currently in the category. McLerristarr | Mclay1 01:18, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to add a category “The Beatles songs in surround” (for the song “Because”), but it came out red. How do you actually create a new category such as this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Apanuggpak (talk • contribs) 20:25, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]